If you live in Denver or nearby, here is the phone number to call in order to present your own testimony on how the Colorado Safe Personal Care Products Act, HB 10-1248 will damage/destroy your personal care business. Location address for this MONDAY March 1, 2010 at 1:30 PM :
Colorado State Capital
Room 0107 (basement)
200 East [...]

The history of the United States Federal Food Drug & Cosmetics Act is fascinating. Some of the same issues raising hue & cry in 1911 through 1938 are echoed today.
Initially, in 1901 Henry Perky (inventor of Shredded Wheat, and from Denver, Colorado) created a Natural Food Conservatory called The Palace of Light, a state of [...]

I am posting a few links that provide information and template letters so that you can call, email, snail mail, and if you live in Colorado, personally go to the monday meeting to discuss and testify why you oppose this COlorado Safe Personal Care Products Act, HB 10-1248
Ok, Video discussing problem issues in the bill [...]

If you live in Colorado you have some looming legislation that comes up for discussion this coming Monday, March 1, 2010. This legislation, in a nutshell, to include formulators of organic or natural soap & cosmetics, has the potential to curtail your ability to operate or sell in the state of Colorado.
Additionally, [...]

I spend time periodically watching and listening to the freebies at Mixergy. I don’t have very much time usually to surf the web anymore, so the short video format that Andrew Warner uses at Mixergy lets me catch the gist of a topic quickly, much like reading ‘Cliff Notes’.  This topic is great . . [...]

I get emails frequently asking how do they find out about GMP. Southern Soapers has a PDF compiled that has the FDA GMP Guidelines. (CLICK HERE FOR YOUR COPY) This is a great item to print off and keep as a manufacturing resource, whether you made just soap, or other cosmetics also.
The FDA GMP Guidelines [...]